$4775. Young, almost athletic, very average, no health problems or medications.
Probably not interesting to science then, but maybe I’m a good specimen for dissection as an example of the average healthy guy?

I’m apparently worth $3690. Strange, because Prof. Myers’ description of himself matches mine, and we’re the same age. Maybe he isn’t as average as he thinks. Then again, a number of the questions called for qualitative judgments, which may account for the difference. For example, I chose ‘tall’ when asked about my height, but it occurs to me that some people may not consider 6’1″ (185cm) tall anymore.

You know, I could probably get more money than that auctioning off body parts here. Invest a little in hacksaws, axes, mason jars, and formaldehyde, tell the family to have a little fun once I’m dead, and start mailing off jars with mysterious chunks floating in them around the world.

I took the quiz and realize why PZ scored so high: he is an albino little person with elephantiasis! And so of great interest to the medical community. Wonder why they don’t ask about your net worth in this? People who leave their bodies to science often include some moolah to the med school to lubricate the Voyage to the West. See my comment just above for a clue to the cadaver dating scene.

Hmmm… My cadaver is worth $5625.00. No hernias or interesting things like that. The only answers I gave that weren’t what I considered the “normal” answer were that I am short and that I am overweight. Unless you count not drinking and not smoking to be abnormal.

$5,000 even. I got about 30 cent tacked on (the bar barely moved) for my age group(I’m 47). I wasn’t sure what to put for the hair as most my frontal and top is bald, but I have about several hundreds of very long hairs, in a pony tail that go below my shoulders, which looked like it netted me about $400 when I chose that answer.
Really took a shit kicking for having taken Seroquel (anti-psychotic) but the reasons for that will probably amount to more than enough in book deal value than what I lost cadaver value.
Which reminds of an insult I like to say to fundies and neo-cons: I am all for donating your brain to science, but couldn’t you have waited until you died first?

I’m good for $4715. I note that the quiz never asked if the respondent had any interesting mutations or non-deleterious anomalies. I’d imagine having a tail or horns would add a few bucks to the final tab.

And the above comments about dirt, chopped liver, etc. led me to search for values of those:

Topsoil varies in price from about $30 to just under $60 per cubic yard; delivery costs extra. I think my body volume is somewhere less than half of one cubic yard. Fill, in the form of gravel or sand, is considerably cheaper.

At the other extreme, chopped liver (chicken) sells for $5 for a 2 ounce can. I leave it to the other Pharyngulites to calculate their own worth were they to be spontaneously transformed into an equal mass of canned, chopped liver.

Gold currently trades for about $650 (CDN) per troy ounce (20 troy ounces per pound).

About a year ago I worked out the value of retail Taq polymerase (the enzyme that drives PCR); about 120 times the per-mass value of gold. There must be a useful collection of enzymes and other molecules that can be efficiently extracted from a recently-deceased human corpse (particularly if one is frozen in liquid Nitrogen immediately). This calculator apparently does not take into account the value of my liver, kidney, pancreatic, and circulating enzymes.

$4425.00. Like others in this range, I have a healthy lifestyle and no obvious strange medical conditions or weird mutations that would pique the interest of the medical community. So my family won’t get much out of my demise. :)

$5390
I’m in PZ’s general demographic (early 50s, non-smoker, light drinker), but maybe a little sicker (umbilical hernia, appendectomized) — what’s the deal with that anyway? You make a good demo to med students of diseases and surgeries? Research surgeons like to see how the repairs hold up, decades later? (Orac — you out there?)
Also a long ponytail — I guess the hair is worth money to the wig industry or something.

Something nobody has commented on, but has been bugging me …
why should an on-line dating agency website have a quiz about how much you are worth dead ? some plot to have customers do each other in for the cash ?